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Performance

Ports of Auckland’s Vision is to be the best port company in Australasia with world class performance.

Crane moves per hour and ship turnaround times are two key performance and productivity indicators.

Crane moves per hour and ship turnaround times are two key performance and productivity indicators.

Ports of Auckland is a complex business with important responsibilities to fulfil - for our staff, our customers, our community and our country.

We are committed to:

  • Developing excellent leadership and highly engaged staff
  • Providing customers with unrivalled value
  • Continuously and dramatically improving cost relative to volume
  • Growing our business in a profitable manner; and
  • Being a respected and admired company, appropriately recognising the interests of all our stakeholders.

As New Zealand's most significant port, Ports of Auckland's performance is vital to ensuring and enhancing the country's international competitiveness.

We are focused on providing our customers with the most efficient supply chain services in the market, and on continual productivity and performance enhancement.

Key performance indicators including crane rate, ship hours in port, ship turnaround times, staff hours per container and truck turnaround times are continuously monitored and analysed.

A comprehensive series of environmental and other performance measures is also monitored and reported on publicly.

The Ministry of Transport on 11 November 2011 released a report on container productivity at New Zealand ports. The report compares productivity of New Zealand ports with Australian and other international ports and has found that container productivity at New Zealand ports compare well with our international counterparts.

The Container Productivity at New Zealand Ports report was developed using data provided by Ports of Auckland, Port of Tauranga, Port of Napier, CentrePort Wellington, Lyttelton Port of Christchurch and Port Otago.

Report findings included:

  • crane rates on average have been static over the past two years, but ship and vessel rates on average have grown about four percent per annum
  • Growth may be related to an increasing average size of container ships.
  • The container productivity of New Zealand ports appears at least comparable with, and in some cases better than, Australian and other international ports.

The Ministry of Transport will continue to monitor New Zealand’s port productivity with ports providing data each quarter. The complete report can be read here.

You can read more about our performance measures in our Annual Review.